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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Williams Benson" <donated12@one.lt>
Reply-To: westernunioin@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 17:42:08 +0300
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF MONEY GRAM, MONEY TRANSFER



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WELCOME TO WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER Send Money Worldwide
BRANCH: PLOT 117 JEAN PAUL AVENUE BENIN REPUBLIC
E-mail Address: westernunioin@hotmail.com
Website: www.westernunion.com

Attention:

This is to inform you that the America Embassy office was instructed
to transfer your fund $1500,000.00 U.S Dollars compensating all the
SCAM VICTIMS, and your email was found as one of the VICTIMS by the
America security leading team and America’s representative officers.
So between June till 20th Of October 2017 you will be receiving the
sum of $5,000.00 dollars per day. However be informed that we have
already sent the $5,000.00 dollars this morning to avoid cancellation
of your payment, remaining the total sum of $1495,000.00 USD.

You have only three days to Call +229 98645241# this office upon the
receipt of this email the maximum amount you will be receiving per day
“starting from today is $5,000.00 and the Money Transfer Control Number
of today is below.

NOTE: The sent $5,000.00 is on-hold because of the instruction from US
Embassy’s Delegates, they asked us to place it on hold by requesting
the (Clean Bill Record Certificate) in order to fulfill all necessary
obligation to avoid any hitches while sending you the payment through
Western Union money transfer, the necessary obligation i mean here is
to obtain the (Clean Bill Record Certificate).

Below is the information of today, you may not be able to track it in
our website www.westernunion.com, because the obligation has not been
carried out. We haven’t affected it online for security reasons, to
avoid hackers stealing the money online.

Sender Name:....... Peter Iwunor
MTCN:.............. 9422289046
Question:.......... Time
Answer:............ 3days
Amount:............ $5,000.00

We need the below details from you, to enable us fully activate the
payment to your name for it to reflect in your country's western union
branch office, and to update our file records:

1. Your Full Names:....................
2. Postal Address:.....................
3. Phone Number:.......................
4. Cell Numbers:.......................
5. Email Address:......................
6. Sex:................................
7. Age:................................
8. Occupation: ........................
9. Nationality:........................

Furthermore you are advised to call us as the instruction was passed
that within 6hours without hearing from you, Consider your payment
canceled. Email office is the below listed managing director's
Email them via (westernunioin@hotmail.com) website
(WWW.westernunion.com)
immediately!!!

Thanks
Mr. Williams Benson.
(Western Union Mgr Benin Rep.)

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